The bog-trotters (the 67.1 percent who voted "yes") may have wimped out - but we haven't. And neither have real Irishmen. And it ain't over. It's only just starting.Sunday, 4 October 2009
NO REFERENDUM, NO VOTE
As much as Mr Cameron might wish it to, this issue is not going to go away. I repeat ... this issue is not going to go away. This issue is not going to go away.
We were promised a referendum. We want one. No ifs and no buts. No referendum ... no vote.
NO REFERENDUM ... NO VOTE.
Pass it on. Let's have a campaign.
Sunday, 4 October 2009
A great grey Tower of Babel reaches up into the sky over Europe, lopsided, full of cracks and likely to collapse in the fullness of time. But unlike the mythical original, it is complete – even though its builders neither understand nor particularly like each other.
The new European State finally exists and has given itself life – life of a rather Frankenstein sort, but life all the same.
It no longer needs to ask the permission of its member states to act. Ireland, for instance, will no longer be able even to hold a referendum on increased EU central powers.
It has what is called a ‘legal personality’, so will not need to make future changes by treaty but by acting as the superstate it now is.
Increasingly, the provinces of Europe, which until today were countries, will need its permission to exist at all.
That passport you hold is not British, but European. You are a European citizen. British Embassies abroad are European Embassies – as they already show by flying the EU’s meaningless and tasteless blue and yellow dishcloth.
Shouldn’t somebody have pointed out that in the recent history of the Continent, yellow stars call up only one dismal image, the mass murder of Europe’s Jews?
Frightened for their jobs, no longer confident in their ability to govern themselves, the Irish finally surrender to Europe. But at least they were allowed a vote...PETER HITCHENS
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